Newspaper Page Text
JANUARY 29, 1938
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
FIVE
-NEWS REVIEW OF THE CATHOLIC WORLD-
AS ARCHBISHOP ENDORSES CONTEST
His Excellency the Most Rev. Joseph Francis Rummel, Archbishop
of New Orleans, hands his endorsement to Miss Catherine Screen,
president of the Chesterbelloc Chapter of Quill and Scroll, of New
Orleans, sponsors of a National Eucharistic Poetry and Short Story
Contest, open January 6 to April 21, 1938, for students of Catholic
high schools throughout the United States. The contest is conducted
in connection with the Eighth National Eucharistic Congress, to be
held in New Orleans, October 17-20.
LIFE’S MAKING POPE
FASCIST SUPPORTER
WIDELY PROTESTED
Correction D e m a n ded —
Mother of First World War
Victim, Catholic, Dies
LIFE, in its January issue assert
ed that “Pope Pius XI . . . believes
the world is a struggle between
Communism and Fascism and the
favors Fascism.” The statement oc
casioned protests from all parts of
the nation denouncing it as a mis
statement of fact and demanding a
correction.
THE MOTHER of the first enlisted
member of the U. S. Navy to lose his
life m the World War is dead in
Washington. She is Mrs. Annie Clif
ford Eopolucci, 70, mother of John
I. Eopolucci. U. S. N.. who died at
sea arfter the torpedoing of the
steamer Aztec off the coast of
France early in April, 1917. Said
Secretary Daniels of the Navy about
this Catholic mother and son: “His
mother gave more to the country
than the richest man in American
can give in money. She gave her
son.”
REV. JOHN E. WICKHAM, na
tionally known as a preacher of mis
sions, died in New York recently of
a heart ailment at 53. Pastor of St.
Brendan’s Church, New York, he
was formerly superior of the New
York Apostolate, and a native of
Massachusetts.
THE AUSTRIAN CHANCELLOR,
Dr. Schuschnigg, in his book, “Three
imes Austria”, emphasizes his grati
tude to the Jesuit Fathers for his
education at the Stella Matutina.
THE ARCHBISHOP of Bogota and
Primate of Colombia protests against
a bill in the national Senate there
to nationalize the buildings of the
College of San Bartolome, a Cath
olic College conducted by the Jesuit
Fathers. The bill would make the
buildings government property.
HOLY LAND riots between Janu
ary, 1936, and October, 1937, resulted
in 410 deaths, 113 convictions and
seven death sentences, the British
Colonial Secretary states.
THE HOLY CROSS Congregation
throughout the world numbers 1,500
Fathers and Brothers and 5,000 nuns,
statistics compiled on the accasion
of the centenary of the orrder show.
The Congregation conducts the Uni
versity of Notre Dame as well as
numerc other leading institutions
of learning throughout the world, and
engages in parish, missionary and
other work-
FINLAND has a Bishop and eight
priests laboring in an area as largs as
that of New England, New York and
New Jersey.
TEE LAFAYETTE Diocese has
nearly one-fourth of the 256,547 col
ored Catholics in the United States,
the .Louisiana See having a colored
Catholic population of 62,000. They
are for the most part descendants of
slaves of the French and Aeadians
who settled there. Six colored priests,
members of the Society of the Di-
vin; Word, are among the priests la
boring there.
HON. JOS. E. RANSDELL former
ly United States Senator from Lou
isiana, has been named a Knight of
St. Gregory by the Holy Father, the
Chancery office of the Diocese of
Lafayette announces- Mr. Ransdell,
who is 79, was born in Alexandria,
La., studied law at Union College,
Albany, N. Y., and served in the
National House of Representatives
from 1699 to 1913 and in the United
States Senate from 1913 to 1931.
CATHOLIC MEMBERS of the Na
tional Anti-Syphilis Committee, of
which General Pershing is chairman,
include former Governor Smith, John
J. Rascob. Secretary E. J. Heffron
of the National Council of Catholic
Men, Dr. Edward L- Keyes, Edward
F. McGrady and Dr. Thomas Parran,
surgeon general of the United States.
REV. DR. JA IES A. MAGNER of
Quigley Seminary, Chicago, recently
addressed the members of the Chi
cago Methodist Preachers’ Association
at the Chicago Methodist Temple.
THE MARYKNOLL FATHERS are
planning a new preparatory seminary
for the Foreign Missions in St. Louis,
by permission of Archbishop Glen-
non- Similar arrangements are being
made in San Francisco, Cincinnati,
Detroit and Cleveland.
REV. W. COLEMAN NEVILS, S. J.,
formerly president of Georgetown
University, noted classicist, and now
reetdr of Loyola School, New York,
addressed the Archaeological Society
of Washington on the bi-millennium
of the birth of Augustus. The mem
bers of the society were the guests
of the Atalnatian Ambassador and
Donna Matilde de Suvich.
DR. MONTE DE HONOR, whom
the Baptist Standard of Texas and
other publications announce is a
Catholic Bishop who entered the Bap
tist Church, was a member of the
“Old Catholic” and the “National
Catholic Church of Mexico”, neither
of which has any more connection
with the Vatican than the Baptist
Church.
CARDINAL HAYES at the annual
meeting of the United States Catho-
lis Historical Society in New York,
lauded the Constitution of the United
States as one of the noblest docu
ments of its kind ever devised by
man with the inspiration of Almighty
God.
THOMAS B. MORGAN, a non-
Catholic newspaperman from the
United States who has covered the
Vatican since 1931, describes life at
the Vatican in “A Reporter at the
Vatican”, Longmans-Green and Com
pany, New York. Mr. Morgan gives
vivid descriptionns of the Holy
Father and other great figures there.
. BISHOP KELLEY of Oklahoma
City and Tulsa delivered the sermon
at the annual reception of converts
at the University of Illinois when the
Rev. Dr- John A. O’Brien, chaplain
of the Newman Club there, received
twelve students into the Church.
CLAY CALHOUN, of Loyola Uni
versity, New Orleans is picked for
All-Star Second Team from Jesuit
Colleges by the Jesuit College News
paper Association; he is a back. Hon
orable mention is given Hatch and
Gerdy of Spring Hill College.
MRS. SARAH S. COLLIER of New
York, for many years active in Cath
olic charities, received the Papal dec
oration, Pro Ecclesia et Pontiface,
from the Holy Father, Cardinal Hayes
conferring it in the Archepiscopal
Residence in New York.
CONTROVERSY promotes defi
ance instead of sympathy, Bishop
Kelley of Oklahoma City and Tulsa
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK. — A tribute to His
Eminence Patrick Cardinal Hayes.
Archbishop of New York, was a
striking part of the address which
Miss Rachel K. McDowell, Religious
New Editor of The New York Times,
delivered at the mid-winter meet
ing of the Presbytery of New York
last week, at the West End Presby
terian Church. Miss McDowell is
herself a Presbyterian.
Speaking on the subject: “If I
Were a Preacher,” to an audience
which included 120 clergymen. Miss
McDowell said in part:
“If I were a preacher, an ambas
sador of Christ, I would want those
who came into my presence to go
away felling a desire to live nearer
God.
“Cardinal Hayes always has this
effect on me. You fathers and
brethren here do not know him per
sonally. But you all read in the
newspapers about him—what he says
and what he does. And you know
he is a holy man.
asserted in his lecture course on “The
New Samaritan” at Notre Dame Uni
versity. While controversy cannot al
ways be avoided, it should be the
hearers who ask for it, and not the
speakers- People will be brought
into the Church through organized
effort, the Bishop asserted, effort
through which runs the golden thread
of kindness.
MOTHER KIRBY of the Gray Nuns
of the Cross, formerly superior-gen
eral of the order, died at the mother-
house in Ottawa at 96. Mother Kirby
had been a member of the order 79
years, being professed August 24,
1858.
THE TEMPERANCE Association of
Ireland, with 250,000 members, held
a convention recently attended by
285 delegates. Bishop Raphael Dig-
nan of Clonfert presided. Relaxation
of the laws regulating the liquor
traffic was vigorously opposed.
ENGLAND recently held a great
four-day Catholic Action Congress at
Liverpool in which the consolidation
of the Catholic organization efforts
of the country was a chief topic of
discussion.
THE DOMINICANS are returning
to the Universitw of Cambridge • after
an absence of four hundred years;
they opened their first house there
six hundred years ago, in 1328.
AURIESVILLE, N- Y., where the
North American Jesuit martyrs were
killed by the Indians, will be the site
of a new House of Tertianship and of
Retreats, the Jesuit Fathers an
nounce. Work on the building will
start in the spring.
CARDINAL MUNDELEIN present
ed complete clothing outfits for one
hundred poor boys, his annual
Christmas custom. The boys were
selected from fifty parishes.
JOHN O’DEA, for many years his-
who do not follow his acts and
words from day to day, say to be
that the scarlet robes of the Cardi
nal might be the cause of some of
my veneration. Fathers and breth
ren, I see him also without his red
ecclesiastical robes; I see him when
he is wearing his black street clothes.
His influence on me is always the
same.
“Cardinal Hayes never asks any
favors; he never complains at any
thing I do. He is always paternal,
benign. It is not my good fortune
to see him to talk to very often now
adays. The last time was on New
Year’s Day at his annual ‘at home’
to his priests and some of his lay
personal friends. If possible he
seemed more spiritual than ever.
“Each time I am with him and he
talks to me he gives out something
—a spiritual radiance. For at least
three days afterwards I go about in
a sort of spiritual glow. The reason
Cardinal Hayes is such an everpres
ent benediction to my life is because
JESUITS TO OBSERVE
JUBILEE IN ALASKA
They Have Been Laboring
There for Fifty Years
JUNEAU, Alaska.—From Ketchi
kan to Kotzebue, Alaskan churches
will this year observe the golden ju
bilee of the Jesuit missions in this
territory.
Each church will hold a separate
celebration. In this city the Most Rev.
Joseph R. Crimont, S.J., Vicar Apos
tolic of Alaska, who for 43 years has
striven to enlarge the missions, will
lead the jubilee observance.
Jesuit mission endeavor in Alaska
dates back to November 27, 1886. In
that year the rifle of a man crazed by
fatigue and privation, put an end to
the missionary career of the Most
Rev. Charles John Seghers, former
Archbishop of Oregon City and Van
couver Island, as he was within a
day’s journey of Nulato, where he
proposed to found the first mission.
The following spring the Rev. Fa
ther Tosi, S.J., reached Nulato and
the mission was started. Two priests
and three sisters of St. Ann are now
serving at this mission.
A white iron cross stands today on
the slopes of Yissetlatch, now called
Bishop Mountain In memory of Arch
bishop Seghers, whose remains are
buried in St. Andrew’s Church in
Victoria, B. C. The cross was a gift
from the Couer d’Alene Indians of
Idaho.
torian of the Ancient Order of Hi
bernians and editor of The National
Hibernian from 1924 to 1930, died near
Philadelphia late in December at 79.
JACQUES GAGNON, a student at
Joliette Seminary in Canada and a
resident of Montreal is one of Can
ada’s eleven Rhodes scholars. He is
nineteen.
SAN FRANCISCO will entertain
the Pacific Coast Regional Conference
of the American Catholic Philosophi
cal Association January 28th and 29th,
with Archbishop Mitty and Monsig
nor Fulton Sheen as speakers at the
closing banquet.
30 LABOR LEADERS and over 200
union workers are enrolled in the
Crown Heights School for Catholic
Workmen at the Brooklyn Prepara
tory School under the auspices of
the Jesuit Fatners.
rev. t. s. McDermott, o. p.,
provincial of the Dominican Fathers
in the United States, in a Holy Name
Sunday address over the NBC net
work, told the Holy Name men of
the nation that the country today
has great need of men of strong
Christian principles in public life,
men who believe in the virtues of a
Christian home and in the proper
upbringing of children.
BOSTON’S Catholic schools of
grammar school grade save the public
treasury the sum of $10,000,000 an
nually, the Rev. Richard Quinlan
diocesan superintendent of schools,
says m the twenty-fourth annual re
port of the schools of the Archdiocese,
embracing Northeast em Massa
chusetts.
ARCHBISHOP MOONEY of De
troit, has been elected honorary chap-
Heads Coaches
Harry Stuhldreher, head coach at
the University of Wisconsin, and
formerly one of Notre Dame’s fa
mous “four horsemen”, who has
been elected president of the
American Football Coaches’ As
sociation, at the meeting of the
Association just held in New
Orleans.
New Auxiliary „
The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Stephen S.
Woznicki, pastor of St. Hyacinth’s
Church, Detroit, and secretary
to the late Bishop Michael J.
Gallagher, who has been named
Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdio
cese of Detroit, to assist Arch
bishop Edward Mooney. (Hoff
man Studio.)
lain of the Mark Twain Society.
NINE NEW SCHOOLS, including
six junior high and one high schools,
have been opened during the year
in the Archdiocese of Chicago.
SEVENTEEN NOVICES of the
Maryknoll Sisters, destined for work
in the missions of the Orient, made
their first vows and sixteen postu
lants received habits at the Mary
knoll Motherhouse at Ossining, N.
Y. early in January, Bishop James
Walsh, M. M., presiding. The Mary
knoll Sisters now number 550, prac
tically all of them from this country.
ERNIE PYLE in an article syndi
cated for the Scripps-Howard news
paper, describes the life of Father
Peter d’Orgeval-Debouchet, SS. CC.,
chaplain of the leper colony on the
Island of Molokai and successor to
the famed Father Damien. He has
been at Molakai twelve years, con
tacted the disease while ministering
to the lepers, and was cured.
A NOTED JESUIT, formerly on the
faculty of St. Louis and Fordham
universities, where he was an
authority on psychology, Father
Jaime Castiellory Fernandez del
Valle, S. J., was killed in an automo
bile accident in Mexico City, and
a student, Jesus Sodi Jalil, died with
him. He received his Ph. D. degree
from the University of Berlin.
THE WORKS PROGRESS Adminis
tration has issued a catalogue of 95
Catholic plays, the announcement
being made by Emmet Lavery, direc
tor of the Federal Theatre Project.
HARRY STUHLDREHER, one of
the famed “four horsemen" of Notre
Dame and now head coach at the
University of Wisconsin, was elect
ed president of the American Foot
ball Coaches’ Association at its con
vention in New Orleans.
TWO CANADIAN SISTERS,
Mother St. Rosine and Sister St.
Eustelle of the Motherhouse of the
Congregation de Notre Dame, re
cently observed the seventieth an
niversary of their profession as nuns;
there have been only 16 such anni
versaries in the 280 years of the his
tory of the order.
CARDINAL HINSLEY, of England
has had the American Church of
Santa Susanna in Rome assigned to
him as his titular church. The Rev.
Thomas Lantry O’Neill, C, S. P., rec
tor of the church, welcomed His
Eminence, who in his response, laud
ed the Church in the United States,
and particularly its splendid parochial
school system.
ANGLICAN LEADERS in England,
headed by such figures as Lord Hali
fax have presented a memorial to the
English Anglican Archbishops urging
“a far larger proportion of perma
nently unmarried clergy”.
REV. JOSEPH M. EGAN, S. J., pro
fessor of theology at St. Mary’s
Seminary, Mundelein, 111., has been
named assistant to the Very Rev. Wil
liam M. Magee, S. J., provincial of
the Chicago Province of the Society
of Jesus.
REV. CHARLES DAWSON, S. J.,
a former Anglican clergyman, and
for years secretary to Cardinal Man
ning, is dead in England at 73 from
injuries sustained when he was
knocked down by an automobile. As
a missionary he served in India and
British’ Guiana.
“Some of my fellow Protestants,
he is truly a holy man.
Protestant Praises Cardinal
Before Presbyterian Group
